They’re not used in the wax but the wax keeps you from being able to wash any insecticides off. Given the amount they have to spray apples to get perfect fruit, that can be a lot. I have a couple of apple trees that I never spray and rarely find one without a hole from a coddling moth. Because apples are stored for months after they are picked – how do you think the stores have apples year round when they only ripen in the summer/fall – they use wax to keep them from losing moisture. In the 50’s and 60’s, only stored apples and cucumbers were waxed. Now, it seems most things are. It’s best to grow your own produce or buy in season from farmers markets and stick to canned or frozen in the off season.

Yes they do, read the article again pls

this article is a joke. if you knew ANYTHING about growing your own food doctor, apples do not have a glossy wax when they come off the tree… I know this because I have my own backyard fruit orchard. Natural, organically grown food from your own garden does not have this… My apples have divets, rough skin, and are all shapes and sizes…. with the occasional bug dammage. If you look at wild crab apples its the same. basically what you buy at the grocery store is crap. all of that food is crap. Do yourself a favour and start to grow your own food… wether it be a big or small garden, or some vegetables or dwarf trees in pots on a patio or balchony… or even indoors.

Apples absolutely have natural wax, just not as much as what the store-bought (i.e. wax-added) ones have. We have 2 apple trees, and I know they’re not treated, yet I can feel the wax on the them and if I rub them on a cloth you can totally polish them.

better peel off the skin not unless you know what kind of wax they are using. better safe than sorry

The author also implies indigestibility means “safe” which is patently false (per another commenter here).

The wax used on food is often Carnauba which is derived from plants.

Sometimes it is food-grade Paraffin wax… which is made from the byproducts of the refinery of crude oil.

Furthermore, food-grade wax oftentimes is mixed with other chemicals like dyes which presumably will have their own risk profiles.

I’d like to see studies showing the biological impact of food-grade waxes on the gut instead of an article saying “don’t worry its indigestible and organic”.

I believe you are misreading my reply. I clearly wrote “Just because the human body cannot digest something doesn’t mean it’s harmful.”

I was explaining the fact that not being able to digest something does not make it harmful. I at no point extrapolated that to mean that anything you cannot digest is safe to eat. You jumped to that conclusion on your own.

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